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festival

1 min read · sound

Basics Add your user to the audio group, and install festival-english. 1echo "(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)" >> /usr/share/festival/voices.scm 1echo "(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")" /usr/share/festival/voices.scm Set Default Voice Edit ~/.festivalrc with (set! …

ffmpeg

2 min read · sound vision

Basics Translate a media file to a new type. ffmpeg -i [input file] output_file.mkv The input file might be a device, such as a camera. #Record screen Take the format as 'grab the x11 screen'. 1ffmpeg -f x11grab -s [screensize] -i :0.0 out.mkv Get screensize with 1xrandr -q or maybe just... 1ffmpeg -f x11grab -s …

fonts

1 min read · distros

Basics Update font-cache: 1su root 2fc-cache List fonts: 1fc-list Grab the part of the font name you need for Xresources: 1fc-list | cut -d: -f2 Add field 3 for styles.

fstab

1 min read · system disk

Basics The ordering of /etc/fstab is disk mount point filesystem type options dump pass Example: 1UUID=877f14e8-4738-46b0-884f-ba330dad1a7d /mnt/biggie ext4 nofail,rw,relatime 0 2 2 3UUID=B21648C416488AF5 /mnt/share ntfs nofail,rw,nosuid,nodev,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0 5: Dump Ignore this …

git

3 min read · data

Starting New Machines 1git config --global user.email "$YOUR_EMAIL" 1git config --global user.name "$YOUR_NAME" New Git Decide on algorithm: If you're scared of insecure hash-sums, go with hash=sha256. If you don't know what a hash sum is, go with hash=sha1. Init the Git Start a git in directory ${DIR}: 1git init …

git hooks

1 min read · data git

Check out the sample hooks: 1cd $GIT_REPO 2ls .git/hooks 3head .git/hooks/pre-commit.sample Add a hook to check the shell scripts in $GIT_REPO before making a commit: 1echo '#!/bin/sh 2shellcheck *.sh' > .git/hooks/commit-msg 3chmod u+x .git/hooks/commit-msg Committing Your git hooks will not enter the repository, but …

git subtree

1 min read · data git subtree

Pulling a Subtree from an existing git The project has subdirectories sub-1, sub-2, sub-3. The first should be its own repository, but should also retain its own history. First, we extract its history as an independent item, and make that into a seprate branch. 1git subtree split --prefix=sub-1 -b sub If you want …

git-lfs

1 min read · data git

Git Large File Storage ('LFS') needs to change your ~/.gitconfig to check out those binary files: 1cat ~/.gitconfig 2git lfs install 3cat ~/.gitconfig Then track some filetypes with: 1cd $git_repository 2ext=ttf 3git lfs track "*.$ext" Or a directory with: 1git lfs track "images/" Track the changes to .gitattributes: …

git-secret

1 min read · data git

This utility is largely useless, as it can only identify people by their email. So if someone has multiple GPG keys associated with one email, the tool will not work. A broken tool is better than a tool which will break soon.